On the market: Evanston home of a Lake Point Tower architect

The Evanston home that one of Lake Point Tower's architects designed for himself came on the market this week.

The five-bedroom house on Asbury Avenue was the home of George Schipporeit, who designed the 70-story lakefront tower with John Heinrich.

The 6,000-square-foot house, priced at just over $1.27 million, has five bedrooms, according to the listing posted by Claire Sucsy of Coldwell Banker. The austere streetfront facade conceals an interior where many rooms open up to outdoor patios and balconies. (See photos below.)​

Inside, the main rooms are large white-walled spaces that connect to one another, typical of modern architecture. On the second floor, a glass-enclosed conservatory faces south, and each of the five bedrooms has a balcony, according to Sucsy's listing.

A wall that extends out from the house surrounds the rear yard. A squash court is in the basement. A separate building contains a four-car garage and an exercise studio.

Lake Point Tower was the tallest apartment building in the world when it opened in 1968. The pair of architects took their design inspiration from an unbuilt proposal Mies van der Rohe made for a Berlin skyscraper in 1922. Mies was later their teacher at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Schipporeit also designed high-rises in Evanston and in Chicago's Streeterville and Near North neighborhoods, and served as chairman of IIT's architecture department. He died in 2013.

He built the Evanston house in 1984 for himself and his wife, Alice, and, according to Cook County records, sold it for $450,000 in 1991. Seven years later he regained ownership of the house in a court-ordered sale by the family he had sold it to, according to the records.

The next year, 1999, Schipporeit sold the house again, for $580,000.

Current owners Michael and Katharine Anderson bought the house for $1.1 million in 2005, according to county records. The Andersons and Sucsy could not immediately be reached for comment.